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Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff Thinking back over the past two Waterloo Siskins' seasons when they won Ontario junior B hockey championships. Terry McCutcheon, Ron Pearson and Pat Hinnegan are among the names of top scorers who come to mind. .. -Gdihose three players all had somethln' common. They wtrrrtt't. just oed, they wert good and big. I Eat Uiiiii/tiGyeiies Siskih scoring leader may possess a similar touch around the net, that's where the similarity endr. _ . At 5' "if, Taiso pounds. rookie centre Dean DeSilva doesn't completely fit the mould of previous Siskin point- setters. ' . _ . ' ---_ A_â€"â€"_ - ' LA... “I “W‘IVIO. All the same. he's shown he can score with the best of them. His three goals and one assist in Sunday's 7-3 win over Kitchener Ranger B's give him 25 goals in 21 games. l _ ‘ . -- - ____a_a -- o .44..- 5-4... " His three-goal effort was needed as slsxms Drone a two-game losing streak. Friday they had lost 6-3 to Stratford Cullitons and last Wednesday they had lost 9-7 to the Ranger Ws in Kitchener. Breaking into the Midwestern league as a rookie, Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Staff Dave Wettlaufer may have gone to Illinois on a golf scholarship, but it was in Texas. another state where he had an offer, where he had one of the most unusual showdowns of his career. In his fourth and final year of golf eligibility at Bradley University last May, the 23-year-old Waterloo native found himself tied for the lead after four complete rounds in the Missouri Valley conference tournament at Amarillo. Texas. He won the championship on the first playoff hole after he and another golfer finished with 302. And if 302 sounds high, there is a reason. "The playing conditions were pretty bad," We(tlaufer said during a visit to Waterloo on American Thanksgiving. “The west side of Texas has nothing to block the wind. 1 was expecting a wind but not something where it's hard to stand. "Picture yourself in a Western movie with tumbleweeds rolling across the fairway. That's what it was like. It was in a city but we still had the tumbleweeds. They'd blow in from out in the country." Gs, Missouri Valley tournament is considered a major one, and that championship in May was Wettlaufer‘s second in two years as he completed a distinguished eareer _in, college an}: ' h CUIIIVIVWU - m""-""-"""'- -e-- r - U .. Now he's back at the university in Peoria (the same town where ex-Slsllin goalie Don Einwechter now plays as a pro) tying up some D Golf scholarship 'tair way' to W? DeSilva hadn't set any lofty goals for himself. In fact, he's already exceeded his expectations for the season. . _ A- . 77 - " __:A “AC“...- ue a allccuy VALVD‘IV‘I u... -._r- - ,_ “I set my goal for 20 (goals) this year," said DeSilva. "but (coach) Ross (Yantzl) gave me a chance with two good wingers and things have been going well.“ Lack of size didn't hold DeSilva back last year in midget hockey. either. He had 42 goals and 42 assists last year. Coming up through the ranks of minor hockey (and minor football) DeSilva was always one of the smaller players so he learned to adjust at a young age. "Every game. you're going to get hit," said DeSilva. “I have to avoid that one solid hit. I try to keep mov- ing "m. "i just have to keep my head up and skate as hard as I can." DeSilva has played on a line with Steve Aebersold and Mike Barbeau most of the season. but Sunday Dominic Niro replaced Barbeau and scored on DeSilva's rebound off the goalpost. Scott McCulloch. another good player of DeSilva‘s stature, also had three goals for Siskins. - .. . . w9__, “Wu --" Dunn-c. can u."- nu»- "v...“ -_- - Ranger B's replied with two goals by Jim David and one by Rob Warren. Dave Wattlaufor loose ends academically in a marketing program after working in the pro shop at Rockway Golf Club for the ninth straight summer. Over the summer. he had time off for tournaments and finished seventh in the Ontario Amateur. He was also in the top 10 in the Canadian amateur and is now ranked fifth among amateurs in On, tario. The life of an athlete on " American college scholarship is a demanding one. In Wettlaufer's case. classes had to be done by noon to allow a minimum of two hours a day of golf and the tournament structure is demanding. Tournaments would often open with the first two rounds Thursday and Friday, then conclude Monday and Tuesday. And that could make it difficult to keep up academically especially at a university with Bradley's high standards. All the same. Wettlaufer is happy with his decision to go the scholarship route. "I'd dethtitely recommend it," said Wettlaufer. “if you can get a scholarship like I did it costs next to nothing. “It costs 310,000 American or 814,000 Canadian to go there and I never naid anywhere near that for four years. It's a cheap way to go WATERLOO amounts. "It 'iiiiTiiiDiiGGGn or 814,000 Canadian never paid anywhere near that for four years. It's but it's a good expfrignce top.” out ll , I B""" (Apt! - m. Wettlaufer excelled as a junior in major area tournaments, then wrote to 40 schools in search of a scholarship. m the end, he had two offers and chose Bradley over North Texas State. [I‘MI'A M - oat Don Oberle made a surprisingly quick return to Siskins' lineup Sunday after crashing head first into the boards last Wednesday on a play that landed David a major penalty. - A - - »- . ._, 4L-_.a a..- m:nnl.nc ...-,.,. v..._.-,. Oberle had Iain on the ice for about five minutes, hardly moving at all, before he was carried off on a stretcher. "I had pain all through my bark, neck and shoulders," said Oberle, who was sent to hospital and released about 2 a.m.. "but it was just whiplash from going into the boards head first." Oberle expected to be out of action about a week and a half. but decided to play Sunday because he felt good skating in 'he, pregame palm up. ""iriiiiia iila 1%GGirs iriiiratiord and he also assisted on one by Aebersold. Steve Schelfele scored three for Cullitons with singles going to Warren Bullock. Shawn Heaphy and Pat Mur- Aebersold scored twice last Wednesday in Kitchener. Singles went to DeSilva. Barbeau. Dan Ridsdale. Bill Kuchma and Greg Munroe. Siskins host Station! Cullitons Sunday at T: 30. ray. wEDNESIMY. new 4, was -- PAGE 23 (Gourd on me 26y